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in combat is particularly exercifed in their 
hunting excurfions, and above all againft 
carnivorous animals. Intrepid, however, as 
it may be to attack the elephant and the rhinor 
ceros, thefe fpecies of animals are not objeds 
of their vengeance ; becaufe, living upon grafs 
and herbs, they have nothing to apprehend 
from them, either for themfelves or their cat- 
tle. But the tiger, Hon, hysena,- arid panther^ 
being enemies of a different kind, they declare 
againft them implacable war^ and purfue them 
without remiflion* 
Of the fpoils of thefe deftruftive animals 
they form their bucklers, girdles, fandals, 
kroffes, mantles, &c. They confider it as a 
mark of honour to wear them ; and they fet 
a much higher value upon them than upon the 
jfkJn of the rhinoceros or of the elephant. If 
they fometimes hunt the latter, it is only as 
objects of food ; and they employ to catch 
them thofe concealed pits, which are the ufual 
fnares cf the Hotrentpts : but this rnethodj 
which requires both patience and labour, is 
very little fuited to a people fo brave and en? 
terprifmg as the Kabobiquas. 
Keen and refolutc hunters, they add to native 
valour 
